On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Adam Miller <maxamillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:23:59PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > <SNIP> >> I don't think we can dismiss the ability to have Fedora run on the >> hyerpvisor that powers (by most accounts) 80% of the public clouds. >> Amazon, RackSpace, Linode, Tata, IDCF, and virtually every other major >> compute cloud services provider is using Xen of some sort as their >> hypervisor. Even if that list was only Amazon AWS, I'd say it's still >> too large to ignore. Effectively if Fedora doesn't work on Xen it >> likely means it doesn't work in the cloud which hardly strikes me as a >> reasonable expectation. I'd personally argue that this should be more >> than a NTH, but my view tends to be pretty cloud-centric these days. > <SNIP> > > Do any of those cloud providers ever run the stock image or do they roll > their own with a custom built kernel anyways? I don't have a lot of > insight into this but was just curious what the landscape is looking > like out there. I personally think it would be cool to have F16 > boot/install as DomU out of the box, but I don't really have a dog in > the fight either way... just an idle curiousity. > Well at least for Amazon, what is there is what we (Fedora) push up, so it's all Fedora now, with our own kernel. I am sure Max Spevack and Justin Forbes can speak to this more intelligently than I can. I don't have visibility into a lot of the public clouds. I do get the impression that RackSpace uses their own kernel or at least has historically. For some of the others, I know they aren't rolling their own kernel, they are booting what ships, creating templates of it etc. --David -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
